The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-09-11
BREAKFAST-TABLE CHAT.


THE late j. E. d. Couzins, who was United
States Marshal at ST. Louis. claimed descent
from Frederick the Great.
THE best recent art speculation made by
l. ondon man who bought Turner's Antwerp"
for 81, 900 four years ago, and recently sold it
for $34 900.
DIR. GRANT BEY has attracted good deal of
attention at the medical congress at Washing
ton. He has full, gray beard, dresses in rusty
broadcloth and wears a Turkish fez.
MRS. SIGoUREEY's grave is in Spring Grove
Cemetery, Hartford, Conn. 1t is shamefully
neglected. Weeds and wild vines oyerrun the
lot, and the brown-stone monument sorely needs
attention.
MRS. GARFIELD expects to remain in Canada
until the latter part OF the present mo nth. She
will then return to her Cleveland home. and. it
is said. begin arrangements for the nuptials OF
her daughter Mollle and j. Stanley Brown
MRS ELIZABETH SANDS still lives in Bati-
more at the age of ninety nine to tell of her do
ings to help the troops in 1912, and she is called
an "Old Defender" She will be Toasted on the
18th with the three remaining "Old Defenders"
of Baltimore.
THE celebrated preacher, Rev. Stopford
Brooke, has gone through the legal form which
enables him to drop his ecclesiastical title He
is said to desire a seat in the House of Commons
His unfrocking himself has caused surprise and
pain to his friends and admirers.
j. T. TRowBRIDGE, the author, has grown
rich in an easy and pleasant way. He is one OF
the principal stockholders in the company which
owns all the available land for cottages at Ken
nebunkport, Me. The rapid rise in the price of
land at tn at resort has made the stockholders
wealthy.
A TEN-INcH lizard was found in the mail from
England at the New York Post Office on Tues
day. 1t was directed to place in Indiana The
little beast had crossed the ocean in a tightly
~;, h1~ boz nA 1Sunlx
be when air was given him. Lizards are not
mailabe, the person to whom it Is addressed
has been notified of its detention.
AN autograph letter of Balzac has just been
made public which tells that he once dreamed of
great treasure being buried in Corsica, and he
SET ont alone to seek it. Want of funds. how
ever, hampered him and before he reached
Ajaccio he lost faith in his enterprise and de-
cided to return to Paris. But from this incident
Dumas derived the inspiration of Monte
Cristo."
In the Yellowstone country a large hotel is
erected upon a great geyser terrace, and a dor
mant water crater is the receptacle for all the
house drainage and in the romantic
gion the Chinese laundryman attached to one of
the hotels gets through bis labors by throwing
the clothes into a bubbling, frothyR pool, and
fishing them out when they have been tossed
about enough.
A JAPANESE professor has been looking
through the Munich breweries and brewing
school for time past. and it is expected that
a lot of natives will be matriculated in that
school before long 1t Is understood that the
government of the Mikado intends to check the
use of sake. the Japanese brandy, by imposing
a heavy tax on the article and admitting foreign
beer free from duty
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX. the poet of passion
who is about to take up her abode in New York.
is small woman, quite plump, with very
pretty face. She does not require the witching
influence of ''midnight's holy hour" to inspire
her pen. but sits at dainty desk OF lnlald wood,
and in broad daylight inscribes her burning and
effective verses. Her husband is q stout man,
devoted to business.
ONE of the greatest sapphires of the world is
the property of the polytechnic society of Ber-
lin, Prussia 1t weighs little more than six
ounces The jury of the polytechnic society on
the grounds, stated in full at their discussion,
would have settled it's value a: the frghtful sum
of "a 600 900 marks, $4,000. 900. 1t need
hardly be said that such a treasure is not likely
to find purchaser at such price.
In Pilgrims Progress" translated into
Japanese and illustrated by native artists Chris
tan has a closs-shaven Monaghan head, Vanity
Fair is a feast of lanterns with popular Japan
csc amusements, tine dungeon of Giant Despair
Is OF those large wooden cages In which
Eastern criminals are confined and the angels
waiting to receive the pilgrims on the further
side of the bridgeless river are dressed in Yoke
hamo fashion.
CHICAGO recalls the interesting fact that
of the first signs stuck up above the ruins of the
great fire bore the legend s.Wm. NJ. Singerly,
Rice Rosn and Peanuts" In those days Mr..
Singerly was good natured Board of Trade
man, who did a sort of general merchandise
business down town and ran little ham picking
establishment out on the Black Road. That was
before he inherited a great fortune and when he
probably did not dream of being a millionaire
newspaper and street railroad proprietor.
THE Epoch: It not generally known that
the author of the,"Battle Hymn of the Repub-
she wrote of charming house in the unfashion-
ablesouarter of Newport known as 'the Pint"
Mrs Bellows piaz is all shaded up with vines.
And the irnps and the nymphs they look through
You the New York boat, with its mighty en-
And the boat, if it likes. you.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON is a thorough
Scorchman in speech and appearance. His clear
cut features are pleasing in their makeup. but
his pale cheeks are sunken. and his face shows
marks of ill health and hard work. His eyes
are dark his eyebrows black. His black hair is
brushed straight back from bis forehead, and is
worn long behind, that it clusters his
shoulders Mr. Stevenson is devoted to cigar
ette-smoklng.
Mr. BLAINE's two sons VINO are citizens OF
Chicago both live at the Union Club. Of the
two Emmons, the elder. would attract the most
chances. His nearly white hair sets off his
swarthy complexion and black mustache. He
has the Blaine features Emmons Blaine is
railroader. He entered the service of the Chi
cago 81 Northwestern company as a clerk. pass
ing through one subordinate position after
other till he became assistant the general
freight agent When the Atchison, Topeka 81
Santa Fe obtained an entrance into Chicago he